My Chinese Hat plant is in bloom again! Looking like bougainvillea from afar, the vine is putting out more and more of its orange flowers lately.

The pic below was taken in the morning when the sunlight was just shinning on the part of my garden where the Chinese Hat plant is.

Here is a close-up photo of the unique blooms. I like the colour too. The orange turn a little bronze as the flower ages.

Next to the vine is the pot of Chinese Rose radish which I am also germinating the seeds for sprouts. The sprouts come in handy for garnishing food in the kitchen. Now I hope that I would get to eat the radishes as well.

My roses are in bloom as well. They delight the heart with their beauty and sweet fragrance. This pink rose releases a strong scent. Sometimes I could smell it without needing to put my nose to the flower.

But the miniature rose below has a faint smell. I have to put my nose close to the flower to sniff its sweet scent.

Desert rose in yellow... this one is called 'One Day Yellow'. The flower is yellow at first but turns whiter as it ages.

The rose-pink blooms of my Weeping Malpighia look outstanding against a bushy tarragon. This was another highlight of my garden last week. Every time it flowers, I have a chance to see if they set fruit. Sadly, they didn't again :(

White plumbago blooms are popping up again.

Took this picture of my Bangkawali very early in the morning. But I am glad I did. Now I know that the flower is white.

Scenecio confusus 'Sao Paolo' is a tough vine. It sends out shoots and flower again and again.

Its bright orange blooms pop up here and there as I let the vine grow wild at one part of my garden.

The Rosemary is growing slowly but surely in this pot that I parked next to my edible gingers.

I happened to have both of these plants, Iresine and Coleus for a long time. Last month I thought of growing them together in this pot. They turned out be a great match for each other.

Here are my beautiful plants in the shade. Looking at greeneries like the dwarf syngonium and fern makes me forget about the happenings in the world.

Below is an Alocasia hybrid. The leaves are just growing back. The plant didn't do well for a long time already.

Two red Gloxinia flowers opened. The cloudy sky prolonged the lifespan of these blooms.

My favourite of the week -- Maranta leuconeura var. 'kerchoviana'! Propagated this plant from a division. I hope it will stay pretty this way for some time :)

Spider tresses was the champion (still blooming profusely till today!) shrub during the Chinese New Year period. The shrub not only grew so lush and healthy-looking, it also flowered extremely profusely.

Also, due to the cloudy sky, the blooms were on the shrub for a number of days.

So glad I could see the shrub flowering at its peak and missing a bit of it even when I left town for celebrate the festivity for a few days.Below is another shot of the short shrub ;)

Whenever Chinese New Year approaches, I look forward to seeing Azaleas. Perhaps it is because I lost one plant before and missed it a lot. Perhaps also I just like to see the pretty blooms. This particularly one below that I bought last year grew so slowly. Even the buds formed slowly and took a while to open. But when they opened, they really gladdens the heart :D. In the kitchen, like last year, I brought out some arrowhead corms from the refrigerator to grow. This time two corms and they are last year's stock!My one week's harvest, okra! Eight of them, I counted, yippie! I had a plateful for dinner, yum!Nothing beats these colourful and sweet-smelling blooms of plumeria. I wish for more buds to appear from this new bunch of flowers as the earlier bunch kept sending out flowers for a while. Once very popular (when it was first introduced to the market), Little Bird Plant didn't disappoint me too. The pot of plant sent our a few stalks with 'bird-like blooms' that is not only attractive to human eyes but also the birds in the air. 'Birds' attracting birds, hehe...

Another brilliant bloom that has just shown up is this one -- a bromeliad called Flaming Torch.

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